Duty Quotes - page 6

Women becoming, consequently weaker, in mind and body, than they ought to be...have not sufficient strength to discharge the first duty of a mother; and sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental affection...either destroy the embryo in the womb, or cast if off when born. Nature in every thing demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity. (Mary Wollstonecraft)
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. View quote
Norman Douglas
It is the duty of every man, so far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error. View quote
Thomas Paine
Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess. View quote
Thomas Paine
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime. View quote
Thomas Paine
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment. View quote
Maimonides
And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia. (Umberto Eco)
In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty. View quote
Umberto Eco
... I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of Islam: precepts of balance, justice and moderation. Although my religious education was very literal, in that I learnt to understand the precepts of the Koran precisely according to the text, we have seen that on several occasions throughout my life, I have felt myself to be very particularly in the hands of the Almighty. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. View quote
George Eliot
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. View quote
George Eliot
There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man. View quote
Ayn Rand
As long as we live in a system of states, and as long as the roots of fascism and imperialist aggression have not finally been extirpated, our vigilance in regard to possible new violators of peace should not slacken, and concern for the strengthening of cooperation between the peace-loving powers will continue to be our most important duty. View quote
Vyacheslav Molotov
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven. View quote
David Lloyd George
You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on mass searches in Petrograd and the goods stations. To carry out these searches, each factory and company must form contingents, not on a voluntary basis: it must be the duty of everyone to take part in these searches under the threat of being deprived of his bread card. We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits must be dealt with just as resolutely: they must be shot on the spot. (Vladimir Lenin)
Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don't have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell him you'd make a terrific juror because you can spot guilty people. View quote
George Carlin
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. View quote
George Carlin
Why I should be in Romania in the name of unknown to me goal. There was a time when I led soldiers to battle, thinking I was doing my duty as a Russian patriot. However, I understood that we have been cheated, that people needed peace. The old army and Soviet Union are not compatible, therefore, my military career had to end. With no remorse, I could go back to my favorite occupation, working in the field. View quote
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while carried by the universal forces of life. Only then does one not think about making art, or about styles, or directions. Something comes about, something happens. View quote
Karel Appel